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Espérame en el cielo

Music by Paquito López Vidal. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1957–1957.

Versions of Espérame en el cielo recorded 1957

Espérame en el cielo was composed by Paquito López Vidal.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

32 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Paquito López Vidal
Words
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Espérame en el cielo, corazón, Si es que te vas primero, Espérame que pronto yo me iré Allá donde tú estés. Espérame en el cielo, corazón, Si es que te vas primero, Espérame en el cielo, corazón, Para empezar de nuevo. Nuestro amor es tan grande y tan grande Que nunca termina, Y esta vida es tan corta y no basta Para nuestro idilio. Por eso yo te pido, por favor Me esperes en el cielo, Y allá entre las nubes de algodón Tendrás por fin mi amor.

English · machine translation

Wait for me in heaven, my heart, If you go first, Wait for me that soon I'll be gone Wherever you are. Wait for me in heaven, my heart, If you go first, Wait for me in heaven, my heart, To start all over again. Our love is so big and so great That it never ends, And this life is so short and not enough For our idyll. That's why I ask you, please Wait for me in heaven, And there among the cotton clouds You'll have my love at last.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1957 to 1957.
1950
Recordings of Espérame en el cielo by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Rodolfo Biagi, 1957, with 100% of the 32 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Rodolfo BiagiMost dancedEspérame en el cieloRodolfo BiagiHugo DuvaltangoColumbia
    32 dances · 100%
    1957
  2. Enrique FranciniEarliest we holdEspérame en el cieloEnrique FranciniRoberto RufinotangoRCA Victor
    No match yet
    1957
  3. Los señores del tangoNot in our catalogueOscar Serpa1957
  4. Rodolfo BiagiNot in our catalogueHugo Duval · May 241958
All recordings of Espérame en el cielo

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Rodolfo Biagi

Espérame en el cieloRodolfo BiagiHugo DuvaltangoColumbia
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Couples filmed dancing this recording · 33 Performances

Maximiliano Cristiani & Karina ColmeiroWorld Champion · Tango de Pista 20132016 · 3:34

Danced to it

Music from 1957 · danced on film 2008–2024

20082024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 1, 2009: 1, 2012: 2, 2013: 3, 2015: 1, 2016: 3, 2017: 2, 2019: 1, 2020: 3, 2022: 2, 2024: 2

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sDamian Rosenthal & Céline Ruiz2009
  2. The 2010sMaximiliano Cristiani & Karina Colmeiro2016
  3. The 2020sVeronica Toumanova & Asya Moiseeva2024

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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Paquito López Vidal

In other catalogues2

tango.info · Z0000580399

TodoTango · tema/3873

Listen

  1. Espérame en el cieloEnrique FranciniRoberto RufinotangoRCA Victor
  2. Espérame en el cieloRodolfo BiagiHugo DuvaltangoColumbia

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